Star Trek: Discovery is far from perfect – its bizarre pacing means and verbosity mean each hour is almost utterly devoid of excitement, characters make some bizarre decsions and Jeff Russo’s theme tune and the opening titles feel nothing like the universe should

USA Network, the broadcaster that brought us Mr Robot has another mysterious offering for us in the form of The Sinner, but the New York State-based detective show consistently breaks one of writing’s first rules.

After our recent look at ABC Stories within South Park, let's take a quick look at Lost to see how it should be done, though you'll need to watch the episode to fully understand what I'm talking about. The episode in question is S01E16 Outlaws. Its on-island...

Can you believe South Park began its 21st season this week? I can't - not because it makes me feel so goaddamned old, but that creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have managed to keep it fresh through 278 episodes. First off, I'm not a die-hard South Park fan - I've...

Marvel TV’s latest two outings, The Defenders and Iron Fist may have offered up the most boring superheroes in existence and invented a new style of screenwriting for Millennials’ short attention spans…

Morning Sheeple! Yes, you’re quite right, that is Jesse P. Lemons in a captain’s uniform on the bridge of a Starfleet-looking set. But the Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad and Fargo star hasn’t signed up for Star Trek: Discovery – that’s the U.S.S. Callista from season four of Black Mirror.

There was so much wrong with The Defenders that, frankly I could have picked any number of topics to highlight its lazy production but, for today’s lesson I’ve decided to write about continuity both in the traditional sense and in terms of editing…

I’ve written extensively about this week’s Game of Thrones and its maginificent battle scene but here’s a behind the scenes video from HBO that shows how the crew brought the equivalent of an F-15 fighter jet to a medieval battle!

Game of Thrones’ Spoils of War contained a battle that fans oare calling the best yet. Admittedly, it was stunning and had everything, burning men, more burning men and dragons and… impossible geography.

After watching the pilot and second episodes of Netflix’s newet crime show, I was struck by how much of the story was shaped by its setting. You see, Ozark gets one hugely important thing right that other shows often miss…

There might be 154 shopping days until Christmas but the BBC have released a Doctor Who Christmas Special trailer already! What next? Christmas trees in the shops at Hallowe’en? Regent Street lights at Easter? Hippie wigs in Woolworths?

I’ve written extensively about season 3A of Fear The Walking Dead, often stating that the spin-off has usurped its big brother, The Walking Dead – which finally seems to have cottoned on to the fact it was getting boring as hell!

“Forget everything you know…” The Leftovers isn’t a TV show, it’s a Goddamned mystical experience… and I’m not just talking about the religious storyline, nor the Christmas Eve levels of excitement I have towards the show, nor the fact it aired on Easter Sunday.

Better Call Saul returned to our screens Monday night and the season three opener, continuing the story of loveable rogue Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), his loathsome, elder golden-boy brother, Chuck (Michael McKean) et al where we left off, made a welcome, relaxed and...

Last year, in a scathing review of the MacGyver reboot, I wrote that while its network CBS was being left behind in the cotton fields of the 1860’s and minstrel shows of the 1930’s, Fox’s forthcoming series, 24: Legacy would be different by featuring a black protagonist. How wrong can a man be?

It’s been a while since we’ve come up with any of our crazy theories here at Couchpotato HQ, but as we sat down to watch some of the old episodes, something struck us – that Elliot and Darlene aren’t actually Brother and Sister…

What if Mr Robot was on Fox? What if Elliot, Darlene and Angela hadn’t grown into cyber-hacking crypto-anarchists and had been born Republicans? What if their Republican Grandad “Mr Robot Senior” came to stay and brought hats?

The End is Nigh! The penultimate episode of Season Two is almost upon us so it’s time we unleashed our S02E11 Preview. If you ain’t seen last week’s episode S02E10, do not proceed to Battery Park, do not pass go, do not collect $5.9 million…